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poster Another Job for the Undertaker

Another Job for the Undertaker

1mn - Fantasy, Comedy

Shows a bedroom in a hotel. On the wall of the room is a conspicuous sign "Don't blow out the gas." A hayseed enters the room, accompanied by a bellboy. The boy deposits the Rube's bag and umbrella, turns…

poster Base Brawl

Base Brawl

8mn - Animation, Comedy, Music

At the zoo, the animals have all gone to play baseball. Animals fill the stands as they watch the antics that can only come about from exotic animals who play baseball.

poster Triple Trouble

Triple Trouble

As Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept janitor proceeds to make life difficult for the rest of staff.

poster Captain Jinks, the Cobbler

Captain Jinks, the Cobbler

Captain Jinks, the Cobbler was one of two Jinks comedies released by Vitagraph for Christmas 1916 and, according to the U.S. copyright filing, was loosely based on the true story of celebrated conman Frie…

poster Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King

Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King

Our presidential hunter runs across the landscape and falls down in the snow, gets up with his rifle, and gazes upward at a treed animal which isn't in the camera's view. He fires a shot into the tree, th…

poster The Beast of Yucca Flats

The Beast of Yucca Flats

54mn - Horror, Sci-Fi

A refugee Soviet scientist arrives at a desert airport carrying secret documents, but is attacked by a pair of KGB assassins and escapes into the desert, where he comes in range of an American nuclear te…

Hotshot

The story of an American soccer player trying to make it big who turns to Pele, the greatest soccer player of all time, for guidance.

poster 'Blue Blazes' Rawden

'Blue Blazes' Rawden

65mn - Western, Drama

Rawden, a lumberjack in the North woods, fights with crooked dance hall owner 'Ladyfingers' Hilgard over the affections of Babette DuFresne. Hilgard is killed. When Hilgard's mother and younger brother ar…

poster Bob Kick, the Mischievous Kid

Bob Kick, the Mischievous Kid

A boy is led into the frame by two nursemaids who give him a big ball to play with. For the remainder of the film heads appear and disappear, stage props blow up and turn into other objects or people, and…

poster The Texan

The Texan

Tex Benton, riding across the country, sees a turtle, catches a jack rabbit and tests out the old fable of the tortoise and the hare; when the rabbit wins, Tex vows to model his behavior on that style. In…

poster When the Clouds Roll By

When the Clouds Roll By

85mn - Romance, Action, Comedy

Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the unwitting subject of a series of experiments at the hands of a …

poster The Fugitive

The Fugitive

16mn - Drama, War

Two Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their families to go to the front. After a skirmish they end up separated from their respective sides, the Union soldier shoots the Confederate, but he…

Joshua

83mn - Drama, Thriller, Western

A black Union soldier returns from the Civil War to discover his mother brutally murdered by white outlaws. Fueled by vengeance, Joshua transforms into a relentless bounty hunter, tracking his enemies acr…

poster Liquid Bridge

Liquid Bridge

98mn - Drama, Action

Nick McCallum is mechanic who trades in his wrench for a surfboard, going against the wishes of his father– a former surfing legend who lost his ability to walk after a horrible accident on the water.

poster Dickson Greeting

Dickson Greeting

1mn - Documentary

William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a small nod toward the audience. This was the first film produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company to …

poster Jack the Giant Killer

Jack the Giant Killer

7mn - Animation

Jack is trying to impress Susie with his ambition to visit the Land of the Giants. She watches as he demonstrates the strength with which he will conquer the giant. Then we see the cat and dog loading up …

poster Robbery Under Arms

Robbery Under Arms

It's a bush-ranging yarn, very popular at the time, about Captain Starlight, played well by Brampton himself, and his co-horts the Marsden family. Dick Marsden is especially well played by Roland Conway, …

poster The Beau Brummels

The Beau Brummels

9mn - Comedy, Music

Vaudeville team Shaw & Lee sing songs and tell jokes in hilarious deadpan.

poster Buncoed Stage Johnnie

Buncoed Stage Johnnie

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missing parts of the movie. Basically a man wants to give s…

poster Sage Brush Tom

Sage Brush Tom

15mn - Comedy, Western

Tom is attracted by an actress. When she and her company arrive at his ranch, he tries to attract her attention.

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